Latvia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania: YES, allow you to catch wild foxes and breed them/sell them as pets. All non-threatened species are legal, and purchasing from fur farms is legal too.

United Kingdom, Scotland: YES, allow you to keep, breed and sell captive-bred tame foxes as pets. Keeping, breeding or selling wild-caught or orphaned wild foxes is not legal, and any injured or orphaned wild foxes must be given to a wildlife rehabber and released as soon as they are able to survive on their own.

Germany: YES, you need a license to have a fox, but otherwise, all non-threatened species are legal. The license is easy to obtain.

Finland: YES, all species are legal, but the fox must come from an European breeder with paperwork to prove it. It is illegal to import a fox from other continents.

Ireland: NO, all species of fox are illegal, whether they come from a pet fox breeder or not. The vaccine for foxes is not recognized there, hence why they are illegal to breed and own in the country.

Norway: YES,importing a fox as a pet is legal, but you’d have to send an individual request to the Norwegian Directory for Nature Management, to the following land address: PB 5672 Sluppen 7485 Trondheim, Norway. You may also submit your application by email: postmottak@dirnat.no